Greater support in countries of first asylum needed to stem refugee outflows
UNHCR notes that, despite urgent need for funds to handle Syria crisis, action plan remains hugely underfunded.
GENEVA, Aug 26 (UNHCR) - To help prevent more people from Syria fleeing into Europe, the UN refugee agency has repeated calls to increase and improve essential support in the countries of first asylum, such as Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey which are now home to more than four million refugees.
However, UNHCR noted that despite the urgent need for funds the Syria situation Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) remained under-funded, with just 33 per cent of the target figure currently met.
Beyond the European Union's immediate borders, and in the region surrounding Syria the number of refugees has continued to rise following new registrations in Turkey and now stands at 4,089,023 people. Many of these people, their savings long gone, are now living in abject poverty.
The net increase in numbers has come about even with recent inactivation of around 58,000 people from Lebanon's refugee database.
Across the Syria region, UNHCR conducts regular verification exercises to update information about registered Syrian refugees, review their needs, and inactivate the files of those deemed to be no longer present in the country of asylum, after several attempts have been made to contact them.
Syrian refugees in Lebanon, like elsewhere in the region, are facing increasing hardship. After more than four years of crisis, their savings and resources have long been depleted.
The preliminary findings of a recent UN inter-agency vulnerability study found 70 per cent of Syrian refugee households in Lebanon live below the national poverty line of US$3.84 per person per day - up from 50 per cent in 2014.
The same study found an increase in the number of refugees who do not have enough food and are therefore adopting harmful behaviours to cope, including buying food on credit, withdrawing children from school and begging, which has increased 30 per cent since last year.
"A similar picture is emerging in Jordan, where a recent vulnerability assessment found more than 85 per cent of Syrians were living below the national poverty line of US$ 3.2 per day," a UNHCR spokesperson said.
According to recent figures, the 4,089,023 Syrian refugees in host countries neighbouring Syria includes 1,113,941 in Lebanon, 629,245 in Jordan, 250,408 in Iraq, 132,375 in Egypt, and 1,938,999 in Turkey where registration is carried out by Turkish authorities. In addition, some 24,000 Syrian refugees are registered in other countries in North Africa.
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UNHCR's Annual Programme Budget 2007
1 Sep 2006 ... ... 3,481.9 2,819.1 760.8 3,579.9 2,332.9 690.1 3,023.0 Belarus 661.4 252.0 913.4 943.7 290.0 1,233.7 ... 4,622.5 3,767.8 1,126.1 4,893.9 3,373.8 1,089.1 4,462.9 Germany 1,099.7 825.7 1,925.4 1,486.0 ...... -
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16 Aug 2017 ... ... Sudan 166,310.8 2,483.9 6,313.4 25,980.8 201,089.0 194,375.0 2,045.5 11,834.3 23,662.5 231,917.3 ... 90,292.4 685,550.7 461,195.7 1,816.3 42,023.0 79,862.8 584,897.7 540,269.4 2017 current ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2001 - Statistical Annex
8 Nov 2002 ... ... Costa Rica B - 147 270 1,686 5,214 - - 33 1,089 2,587 Côte d'Ivoire B 642 466 497 1,444 8,372 ... U - 2 2 - 2 - 1 - - - Lebanon U 1,597 2,882 3,822 4,112 2,312 1,038 2,206 3,326 6,023 3,680 110 – ...... -
Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, 2011: Statistical Overview of Asylum Applications Lodged in Europe and Selected Non-European Countries
27 Mar 2012 ... ... 44% 9.8 8.1 11.5 15.3 afghanistan 5,106 4,034 5,089 5,213 19,442 -21% 26% 2% 8.8 7.8 8.2 7.7 Russian ... -10% 45% 6% 3.5 3.5 4.2 4.1 pakistan 1,677 2,023 2,576 2,660 8,936 21% 27% 3% 2.9 3.9 4.1 3.9 ...... Attachments: Asylum trends 2011 - annex tables (.zip) -
UNHCR Global Report 2011 - Middle East subregional overview
1 Jun 2012 ... ... Middle East subtotal 1,250,000 0 0 0 185,773,626 187,023,626 EGYPT Brazil 150,000 150,000 European ... Spain 1,371,742 1,371,742 Stichting Vluchteling 28,833 115,089 143,921 Sweden 3,745,256 3,745,256 ...... -
2003 Global Refugee Trends: Overview of refugee populations, new arrivals, durable solutions, asylum seekers and other persons of concern to UNHCR
15 Jun 2004 ... ... 6,088 - - 950 - - 950 59 28 2 2 - - 4 15 7,023 - Iceland 207 - - 7 24 - 31 - - - - - - - - 239 ... RBE Total 2,593,622 423,272 467 95,757 3,897 2,575 89,318 35,256 9,096 4,452 4,433 179 15,795 67,089 ...... -
UNHCR Global Report 1999 - Albania
1 Jun 2000 ... ... Support (to Agencies) 8 4,263,015 4,263,023 1,912 47,172 49,084 Sanitation 0 4,094,227 ... 0 16,857 1,734,228 1,751,085 Outstanding 31 December 36,568 4,053,315 4,089,883 0 0 0 A L B A N I A... -
UNHCR's Mid-Year Financial Report for 2006
5 Sep 2006 ... ... from the Central Government and USD 1,023,083 from other public sources channelled through ... Central America 2,765,088 0 2,765,088 2,766,089 0 2,766,089 926,772 0 926,772 1,159,895 0 1,159,895 ...... -
UNHCR Global Report 2015 - Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regional summary
1 Jun 2016 ... ... 6,899,223 7,199,223 European Union 91,812,023 3,497,237 2,663,164 97,972,423 Finland 8,333,257 ... donors in Canada 203,934 5,645 1,102,510 1,312,089 Private donors in China (Hong Kong SAR) 41,547 ......